Sentences with phrase «accelerating effects of climate»

With flooding in the Miami metropolitan area already an urgent problem — so - called king tides rise from beneath the city through its porous limestone — along with the increased likelihood of extreme weather events due to the accelerating effects of climate change, the city is in desperate need of solutions.

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Glacial collapse is unprecedented in western Tibet, which for decades has resisted the effects of climate change while glaciers in southern and eastern Tibet have melted at an accelerating rate.

Although it is too soon to know whether overall projections for Arctic warming should be changed, the recent temperatures add to uncertainty and raises the possibility of knock - on effects accelerating climate change.

It is a sweeping and valuable cross-disciplinary description of ways in which climate and ocean dynamics, pushed by the planet's human - amplified greenhouse effect, could accelerate sea level rise far beyond the range seen as plausible in the last report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the most recent review of what leading experts on sea level think, this 2014 paper: «Expert assessment of sea - level rise by AD 2100 and AD 2300.climate and ocean dynamics, pushed by the planet's human - amplified greenhouse effect, could accelerate sea level rise far beyond the range seen as plausible in the last report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the most recent review of what leading experts on sea level think, this 2014 paper: «Expert assessment of sea - level rise by AD 2100 and AD 2300.Climate Change and the most recent review of what leading experts on sea level think, this 2014 paper: «Expert assessment of sea - level rise by AD 2100 and AD 2300.»

In this series, we'll offer a deep dive into the pioneering work of one agroforestry initiative that is changing the lives of farmers across Kenya, and we'll see how the arrival of deep - pocketed consumer giants, dairy cooperatives, and flower - growers can accelerate these activities while slowing climate change — especially as new financing mechanisms come into effect under the Paris Climate Agrclimate change — especially as new financing mechanisms come into effect under the Paris Climate AgrClimate Agreement.

The science indicates that human influence has contributed to climate change as we've increased our carbon dioxide emissions and greenhouse gases, further accelerating the greenhouse effect and average temperature of the Earth.

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«The damaging effects of climate change are accelerating.

This led to a nasty scene, when he said I was unable to see what was obvious, ever - accelerating cooling which would lead to a runaway «Neptune Effect» because of mechanisms of positive feedback (his best examples were clouds which collect over the winter solstice — the «in - law» effect — persisting through to mid-February — the «Cupid» effect — and combining forces to wreck the climate for the entire first half of the Effect» because of mechanisms of positive feedback (his best examples were clouds which collect over the winter solstice — the «in - law» effect — persisting through to mid-February — the «Cupid» effect — and combining forces to wreck the climate for the entire first half of the effect — persisting through to mid-February — the «Cupid» effect — and combining forces to wreck the climate for the entire first half of the effect — and combining forces to wreck the climate for the entire first half of the year.)

The ability to do this is threatened by human - induced climate change, the accelerating effects of which are driving political instability and conflict globally.

Again, this is a new phenomenon and, as with more photosynthesis from plants, has a mutually reinforcing (positive feedback) effect; accelerating the rate of climate change.

However, the transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy must accelerate if we want to avoid the worst effects of climate change.

Second, there is a lot of bad news: Several effects of climate disruption have accelerated during the past decade, such as the loss of Arctic sea ice, the melting of big glaciers and the rise of sea levels.

Too much of it is staying in the atmosphere and capturing the sun's heat, leading to an accelerated greenhouse effect, a warming of the planet, and to climate change.

However, the magnitude, accelerated pace and compound effects of climate change today are unprecedented, and present a major challenge to indigenous peoples» capacity to adapt.